November, 2017

Issue: I noticed the Network & Security tab was not visible in a vCenter 5.5 Web Client. This had worked previously. Troubleshooting: Upon investigation in the NSX Manager it appeared the Lookup Service URL was showing as disconnected Resolution: To fix the issue we had to click Edit then re-enter the credentials.

This document describes the process of creating an NFS share on a fresh install of CentOS 6. I will be sharing the directory /home/share for use in a test vCloud Director environnment. I will have two servers connecting to the NFS share (10.64.51.61 and 10.64.51.62) Firstly its always wise to run an update […]

Firstly you wil need to renew your certificates via your chosen CA. I will not delve into the instructions in the post but essentially you will need to create a .csr (my.csr) using a private key (myprivate.key) and password. You should receive the root & intermediate files along with the certificate (my.crt). Copy these to […]

Issue: I installed a new enivornment with vCenter (yes, its 2017 but I needed to do some testing). I added my domain to the SSO identity source. However when I went to login I got the following error: You do not have permissions to login to server: {vcenter-name} Resolution: You will also need […]

Problem: After an upgrade of NSX from 6.2.4 to 6.3.4 in a vCloud enivronment (8.20) several VPNs refused to connect from NSX Edges to a variety of external devices. Troubleshooting: We attempted disabling/re-enabling VPN, redploying the Edge (and thus upgrading to 6.3.4) and removing/add the VPN configuration. All failed. Looking at […]